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Heisenberg position-momentum uncertainty relation beyond central potentials

Quantum Physics 2015-06-03 v2

Abstract

Recently it was shown in [New J. Phys. 8, 330 (2006)] that the three dimensional Heisenberg uncertainty principle might be signifficantly sharpened if the relevant quantum state describes the particle in a central potential. I extend that result to the case of states which are not the eigenstates of the square of the angular momentum operator. I derive a new lower bound which involves the mean value and the variance of the L^2\hat{L}^2 operator.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5198,
  title  = {Heisenberg position-momentum uncertainty relation beyond central potentials},
  author = {Łukasz Rudnicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5198},
  year   = {2015}
}
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